The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-19


"1he Houseksepers Handy Book" tcassel \ Coz Ia
. useful little compendium Of cooking receipts and
many other things It includes Post once directory
aud spelling book.
The Appletons publish under the tito OF "Ths College
and the Church." number Of articles which originally
Gated" series, by Edward Everett Hale Thomas Won't
worth Higginson and others and that known "Con.
fessionA the authorship Of which, for obvious
cannot be given.
Mr. Richard sears the champion tennis player Of
United States has edited reprint OF Lieut.. g. C. r.
Peles Lawn Tennis . Game OF Skill" tscrioners).
contains the latest revised laws as played BY the best
clubs with list Of clubs belonging the United States
National Lawn Tennis Association and OF winners OF
American championship matches.
We have received from the Catholic Publication So
cisty Company "Jswels Of the Nara" BY Percy Fitz.
gerald short account of the rites and prayers used in
the celebration Of the Roman Catholic mass; and The
Banquet Of the Angels" trnnsated by Archbishop Por.
ter OF Bombay from the Priests Manual" The latter
acharminy specimen of tasteful binding
The Fowler 4 Wells Co send Us For Boys; Special
Physiology" by Mra B. r. Sheppard, intended y
panion work to her FOR 6irA The leading Idea
to DO that prudery with boys in nsgecug to explain
them the relations Of Is III timed II not positively In
jurioua There passagen the book that might very
roperiy be withheld from boys OF tender age.
Under the title Of Tho Federal the Put
mans publiah essay by John y. BAKER, which aims
80 present In small compass and in o. clear light No
possible outline Of the growth and principles Of con-
sttuonal liberty enunciasd By the Federal Consttu
tom 1t Is clear and commercially brief Of
what has than formed the subject Of elabo
rate treatisea
Noveilo. Ever Co. pubush Review Of the New York
Musical Season lsso-lss7" BY H. E. Krehbie. I, con.
tains the programme OF every noteworthy museal per-
formnnee from October 1854 20 April 1887 inclusive
with criticisms from articles originally published In
the New Fork Titonn< The latter discriminating
al and 81.
iustratss the progress which nusie Is making in this
community. and tho fluctuations In popular tAsts.
Bsa Hubbard 10 tho author or " Memoriab Of HAh
csntury PutnAmsl. In which recorded the remin
licences Of unusually active and intelligent observer
9hs author settled In the 0utskirts Of Detroit In 1855
and his memorials while relating principally 70 that
town. incidentally the whole peninsula OF Michigan
and considerable part OF the lakes lie considers
his subject under four heads eceniu and descriptive
historical and antiquarian, fauna and dora aud china
tology and In each department has contributed mAter
ally to the knowledge previously possessed Of in
portan portion of the national domain His account OF
the original French habIaRtE OF Detroit aud their
descendants Is or PecuitAr interest and his remarks
climate largely founded original observation
Prof Alexander Balm little trsatse On Teaching Eng
lsh" tApp,etonO affords admirable example Of intel
nsens and Independent literary criticism. discusses
the prevailing opinions to the proper method teach
ing English ssfers To the rhetorical ethed Of compost
ton with select lessons the leading qualities Of style
anu ueVotss several chapters to an attempt 20 define
postry might be consulted with pront by teachers Of
composition, aud indeed By all DESTROYS writ
ing pure and elegant EnIsh AZ te very outset Of the
work the author nLsrs sensible protest against thrae
literary priss who object 10 the employment of OF
fTsnch classical oTiEin wien Saxon equivalents can
be obtained Shakespeare, he EayS might have written
"AortasSs IL the soul Of wit" and Gsfidge might have
called his Ancient Mariner" "The Old Sailor" but
probably the pusis themselves would scarcely have A
proved OF the change Tea the word thai can be
found Whsthar sla.ioal saxon d FRET Baans advice
o his roAAsrA
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